First published 2023
The carousel horses begin to move on their own, their painted eyes following visitors through the fairground shadows. In "Dark Carousel," Joe Hill crafts a chilling tale of carnival magic gone wrong. Sarah Pinborough drags readers into infernal punishment with "The Confessor's Tale," while Neil Gaiman transforms the Snow White legend in "Snow, Glass, Apples." A.C. Wise and Laura Purcell retell classic fairy tales through the eyes of cursed women in "Shoes as Red as Blood" and "Awake." Kelley Armstrong introduces a possessed plaything in "Just Your Standard Haunted Doll Drama," and Helen Grant imagines catastrophic magic in "A Curse is a Curse." This collection brings together sixteen stories that explore the dark consequences of supernatural punishment. Each curse carries its own rules and its own price, from intimate personal torment to world-ending catastrophe. The anthology demonstrates how curses bind victims and perpetrators alike in cycles of suffering and revenge.
Genres: short-stories, fantasy, horror, dark-fantasy
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: cursed, supernatural-punishment
368 pages · Paperback · Titan Books
Content warnings: gore, graphic-violence